Ruiz Zafón Carlos - Szeptemberi lights

"The huge figure slowly rose up, spreading its wings. It dragged its feet slightly to the ground. It started, its claws scratching deeply at the wooden floor. The workshop was now covered in a bluish light, and the shadow that rose from the extinguished match that the boy had just thrown away smoke. The angel stepped over the match and then set off in the darkness; following in the footsteps of Ismaël and Irene."

Let alone the fact that in its thousands of rooms, hundreds of mechanical people are walking up and down, spinning, making noise, dancing in the rainbow-colored glow of the fog creeping in everywhere, or that no one has been able to see the lonely wife of the toy-making owner of the giant villa for twenty years. But from time to time, thick blackness seeps through the cracks of the windows and takes on a terrifying shape - so that more and more deaths give rise to speculation: what terrible secret are hidden in the halls of the palace beyond the forest? Or straight up: what kind of monster?
At the end of August 1937, in the idyll of the blue bay of the Normandy coast, at the dawn of their love affair, Irene and Ismaël have no idea what kind of horrors the night of the last full moon of the summer has in store for them, when they begin to investigate the perpetrator of a suspected murder and enter the brilliant toy manufacturer-inventor into his labyrinthine realm full of shadows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) is the second most read Spanish writer worldwide after Cervantes. In 2014, Penguin Classics selected twenty-six classics in the history of world literature (one for each letter of the English alphabet) and awarded Z as Shadow of the Wind. Carlos Ruiz Zafón thus joined the company of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust and James Joyce. September Lights is the final volume of the Fog trilogy.